Pros:
- Delicious
- Cheap
- Kill anglos and fr*nchs
- Funny name
- The flower does a weird thing
Cons:
- Fucks up the soil big time
- Has micotoxins (tho check point 3 on pros)
- Jimmy Carter
- False advertisement: It’s not made of pee despite its name
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- False advertisement: It’s not made of pee despite its name
Doubly so as it’s not a nut. So two strikes on that count.
Though on the other hand, technically it’s a legume
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what you do mean they’re not made of pee? you don’t pee on your nuts?
I poop on mine
Counter point, they have in the past tried to kill me, and perhaps one day they will succeed. I mean I still don’t know what they taste like.
Excuse me? I am french and peanuts don’t kill me. In fact I devour them, so really it is me who kills them!
How do they fuck up the soil? Or do you mean soul?
Peanut farming it’s very aggressive on the soil
I would have thought as legumes they produce green manure that helps the soil? Is this incorrect?
the logic of industrial scale ag can make anything bad.
I used to work in a farm where we grew peanuts, but only like maybe 100 row feet or so, and rotated with dozens of others crops. it was a very sandy, coastal soil so we could harvest by hand with a digging fork, though like most annuals, planting involved tillage. the impact was reduced by how sandy it was and we weren’t assholes, so we kept passes to a minimum.
I’ve seen peanuts grown at a slightly larger scale in southern Japan, think like 50’ thick strips along the borders of fields stretching for miles. also southern/coastal so still sandy.
I’ve never really seen big monocrop peanut fields like I’m sure exist in the southeastern US, but I’m sure it’s rough.
the general benefit of legumes grown for crop is less that they leave fixed nitrogen behind and more that they fix their own instead of requiring it be brought to them. that’s a big deal in terms of energy expenditure and global warming potential of the production system.
Okay, I have learned way more about peanut agriculture than I expected today, but this has been a way valuable lesson. Thank you!
Look at all that topsoil flying away
why does the tractor have boss music?
Have you ever fought a tractor?
incredible.
what used to take several hundred years of ignorant human toiling can now be accomplished in just a few days with hundreds of gallons of fossil fuels.
the future is now.
That’s not really the top soil, nor are peanuts inherently damaging to your top soil.
Top soil is just the first 5-10 inches of soil that contains the most decomposing organic matter. Peanuts can actually be fantastic for your top soil if you utilize practices like no till farming.
The real dangers of erosion comes from the constant plowing used in most large scale ag, but that happens for pretty much all crops.
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In a well balanced permaculture system they are great for exactly that reason, in a typical monoculture with mechanized harvesting they require a lot of tillage.
Nitrogen fixers? Yeah, but harvesting the peanuts require tilling the ground.
It doesn’t require tilling, it’s just the industry standard. You can completely migrate to 100% no till for peanuts if you do the right cover crop.
As a big peanut enjoyer:
pee on deez nuts amirite
